A historical collection of our writing.
I have started a series of posts which I called Scylla and Charybdis – or why startups are hard. The idea is that on pretty much anything you can err on both sides and only a relatively narrow middle will let you succeed. One of those that will merit an entire post shortly is the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We’re excited to announce today that USV led the recent round of financing in Hailo, the e-hail company based in London and New York. Hailo is rapidly becoming a global platform for regulated taxi service and we are delighted to join existing investors Accel, Atomico and Wellington, as well as new […] Read more
Last Tech Tuesday, we learned about atomic actions as a way of dealing with the problems arising from concurrency. I ended that post by pointing to the limits of atomic actions – most notably that the operating system and/or database system cannot provide arbitrarily complex atomic actions as it […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Part of what makes Google such a formidable company is their access to vast amounts of data combined with top talent in machine learning. For instance, every time someone picks a specific link from a Google results page that action makes Google just a tiny bit smarter about the relevance of that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Recently Andrew Parker predicted that within 5 years we will have a specialized branch of the military dedicated to defending cyber space (just as we have the army for land, the navy for the seas and the air force for the sky). Given the recent attacks on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
On the good news front, I ended a long week of business travel in Europe with some spectacular skiing with friends in Verbier. On the bad news front, the rental randonnée boots I used resulted in a rather aggravated Achilles tendon in my right foot. It got so bad that on the last day of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
